SQL Data Reader - handling Null column values

Question

I\'m using a SQLdatareader to build POCOs from a database. The code works except when it encounters a null value in the database. For example, if the FirstName column in the

Answer 1

What I tend to do is replace the null values in the SELECT statement with something appropriate.

SELECT ISNULL(firstname, '') FROM people

Here I replace every null with a blank string. Your code won't throw in error in that case.